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WeatherUSI: User-Based Weather Crowdsourcing on Public Displays

Evangelos Niforatos, Ivan Elhart and Marc Langheinrich in Web Engineering: “Contemporary public display systems hold a significant potential to contribute to in situ crowdsourcing. Recently, public display systems have surpassed their traditional role as static content projection hotspots by supporting interactivity and hosting applications that increase overall perceived user utility.

Is civic technology the killer app for democracy?

 at TechCrunch: “Smartphone apps have improved convenience for public transportation in many urban centers. In Washington, DC, riders can download apps to help them figure out where to go, when to show up and how long to wait for a bus or train.

Big data: Issues for an international political sociology of the datafication of worlds

Paper by Madsen, A.K.; Flyverbom, M.; Hilbert, M. and Ruppert, Evelyn: “The claim that big data can revolutionize strategy and governance in the context of international relations is increasingly hard to ignore. Scholars of international political sociology have mainly discussed this development through the themes of security and surveillance.

Legal Aid With a Digital Twist

Tina Rosenberg in the New York Times: “Matthew Stubenberg was a law student at the University of Maryland in 2010 when he spent part of a day doing expungements. It was a standard law school clinic where students learn by helping clients — in this case, he helped them to fill out and file petitions to erase parts of their criminal records.

Facebook, stand up or get out

Media leaders have always stood up for a free press and the First Amendment. Now it's Facebook's turn. My Recode column is here: http://www.recode.net/2016/5/31/11821868/facebook-thune-thiel-gawker-con....

May 2016 in Retrospect: Intermediary Liability News and More from the Internet and Jurisdiction Project

These Online Platforms Make Direct Democracy Possible

Tom Ladendorf in InTheseTimes: “….Around the world, organizations from political parties to cooperatives are experimenting with new modes of direct democracy made possible by the internet.
“The world has gone through extraordinary technological innovation,” says Agustín Frizzera of Argentina’s Net Party. “But governments and political institutions haven’t innovated enough.”

Transparency reports make AI decision-making accountable

Phys.org: “Machine-learning algorithms increasingly make decisions about credit, medical diagnoses, personalized recommendations, advertising and job opportunities, among other things, but exactly how usually remains a mystery. Now, new measurement methods developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers could provide important insights to this process.

Nudge 2.0: A broader toolkit for lasting behavior change

Cait Lamberton and Benjamin Castleman in the Huffington Post: “Nudges are all around us. Chances are that someone has nudged you today—even if you didn’t realize it. Maybe it was your doctor’s office, sending you a text message about an upcoming appointment.

Startup Clinics Talk: The App Economy in Europe

The Progressive Policy Institute’s chief economic strategist Michael Mandel will present their study ‘The App Economy in Europe’, in which they found that the EU has a surprising 1.64 million App... MORE

​Launch of new S$30 million national centre to speed up commercialisation of separation and filtration technologies

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Infomocracy (Novel)

Malka Older’s debut novel: “It’s been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything’s on the line.

Twiplomacy Study 2016

Executive Summary: “Social media has become diplomacy’s significant other. It has gone from being an afterthought to being the very first thought of world leaders and governments across the globe, as audiences flock to their newsfeeds for the latest news. This recent worldwide embrace of online channels has brought with it a wave of openness and transparency that has never been experienced before. Social media provides a platform for unconditional communication, and has become a communicator’s most powerful tool.

Matrículas abertas: curso online “Privacidade na Era Digital”

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Académicos de ues estatales exigieron restituir rol de la ed. pública

Más de 600 académicos y académicas de todo el país han adscrito hasta ahora a esta carta que fue entregada en La Moneda y que plantea la necesidad de restituir el valor de la educación pública; reconocerla como un derecho social; la asignación de recursos públicos a instituciones que garanticen su uso en provecho de la equidad y la democracia; entre otros puntos.

Cristián Bellei reflexiona sobre el impacto de la revolución pingüina

El Doctor en Educación, Investigador del Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación (CIAE) y académico de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Chile, habla en la siguiente entrevista sobre el impacto del movimiento estudiantil en las políticas educacionales de la última década.Realización audiovisual: Javiera Vilches- CIAE U. de ChileJueves 19 de mayo de 2016

2006-2016: Las transformaciones en la escena educacional chilena

El 19 de mayo se conmemoran diez años de la toma del Instituto Nacional el 2006, hito que marcó el inicio de las masivas movilizaciones de estudiantes secundarios de ese año, las que en su momento más álgido tuvieron paralizados a más de 400 establecimientos en el país. A una década de las protestas que lograron instalar a la educación como un tema permanente en la agenda política local, distintos expertos de la Universidad analizan sus logros y sus consecuencias.

Plataforma reúne lo mejor de las investigaciones médicas

Epistemonikos, aplicación que posee una completa base de datos de investigaciones médicas, fue distinguida por la publicación Technology Review del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT). Sus aportes van desde contenidos para resolver consultas de profesionales de la salud, hasta generar insumos para políticas públicas, motivo por el cual además está siendo utilizada por el Ministerio de Salud.

Matrículas abertas: curso online “Tributação e internet”

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O Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio) realizou o curso rápido “Tributação e Internet”, ao vivo online. A professora, especialista em direito financeiro e tributário, tratou sobre temas como a tributação das operações de venda de mercadorias realizadas por lojas virtuais.
Temas das aulas:
1ª aula: Tributação e e-commerce.

Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast: cyfrowa strategia w zmieniającym się świecie

Zapraszamy na wykład Michaela P. Edsona i warsztat z jego udziałem w sobotę 11 czerwca 2016.

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